So.. what are 'Non-Pokemon?'

Legendary Pokemon, Starter Pokemon and all of the rest - what do all of them have in common? We all can tell that the Pokemon.. are Pokemon, creatures that have been merged and involved with the franchise as a whole, hence gaining the attribute of “being official."
Though if we went over the vast amount of media related to the franchise, we have from time to time came across designs that seemed out of place - creatures, which either really couldn’t be assigned to an existing Pokemon family, we never got the chance to take them along on our journey, or straight up showing up and disappearing just as fast with no explanation or understanding.. so what are they? Well.. time to find out what these unofficial Pokemon truely are!

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CHAPTERS:
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00:00 - Intro
02:31 - Actual Animals
07:56 - Move Related
11:39 - Findable or Usable
15:55 - Unique Forms
22:20 - Manga
25:09 - Honourable Mentions
28:34 - Conclusion

#pokemon #facts #pokemonscarletandviolet

[RoninCatholic]

Regular Mongoose is my favorite Pokemon. Not Zangoose or Youngoos or Gumshoos, just the regular Mongoose that is a known predator of Ekans and Arbok.

[CrazyPangolinLady]

Kangaskhan should have gotten a baby evolution, so that They’re not born with babies. They could even have it where a Kangaskhan doesn’t breed unless you have high friendship, so it trusts you enough to give you an egg.

[MatthewCampbell]

Part of what makes Lavender Town so surreal IMO is the fact that it's a very rare instance of the games throwing you into a "battle" with something that is treated as being, technically, not a Pokemon. The manner in which it breaks established "rules" if you will, both tonally and mechanically, I think is probably part of why it left such an impression.

[ImmortalAbsol]

4:20 New headcanon; this is the first appearance of basculegion.

[Munchkin.Of.Pern]

Just going to point out that Deertrack Path / Heights doesn’t actually imply anything about the existence of “real life deer”, considering that WyrDEER lives there. The place is named after the *pokemon, * not an IRL animal.

[stuff]

I have an addition to make

in the diamond and pearl movie where ash and co went back in time and arceus first appeared the people refered to pokemon as "magical creatures". we use adjectives to differentiate something from other things where that adjective doesn't apply (games and videogames) so "magical creatures" implies the existence of "non-magical creatures"

[ShortySquib]

On the topic of Pokémon fusion you did miss one: Venustoise, an illusion which was created by a Gastly in the anime episode "The Ghost of Maiden's Peak" which combines elements of Venusaur and Blastoise

[Pyrogecko]

The pokemon statues in gyms, some kind of horned winged creature

[DigiDarkStar]

Season1 Pokedex: "Pikachu, the electric mouse
Ash: "Wait wait back up, what the heck is a mouse?!"

[_kio_art]

As a Spaniard that I am, when you said Paela instead of Paella my heart broke

[AstralBirthVoid]

RIP Bittercold, Dark matter, the Void shadows and Dark Dialga.

[j]

for another example of real life animals in main line pokemon games, as a sea life nerd, when the indigo disc came out and i saw a coral reef in the terrarium i just sat there confused for a while wondering about it, considering coral and sponges are animals. they also appear very prominently in new pokemon snap and probably other places

[jacob]

You missed a few but that's to be expected with how many weird old Pokémon episodes there are, not to mention all the other things. The "Island of the Giant Pokémon" episode has giant robotic Pokémon, which you could argue don't count, but the giant Dragonite from the bill's lighthouse episode and the time a giant Tentacruel attacked a city definitely should. There's also the time Bill fused himself with a Pokémon in the games and you had to help him unfuse, which brings up a LOT of questions. The legendary beasts of Johto were said to have been different Pokémon before they were revived by Ho-oh, I think in the anime we see a quick shot of their silhouette and it doesn't look like any Pokémon we currently know of. There was also the time Professor Ivy found the equivalent to the Galapagos Islands with a ton of Pokémon with different patters than normal. I believe the Sprout Tower was said to have been made from a 100 foot tall Bellsprout, which is another giant Pokémon if true, but that's an in-universe myth so may not count. I'm sure there's more but that's all I can think of for now.

[strange_ne]

I've had a longtime fan theory that most Pokémon are animals that have evolved. Pikachu, for example evolved from mice . Real animals were more common in Gen 1 and 2 before they became endangered. In the more recent gens the most common animals are invertebrates, the most abundant animals on earth

[Cloud_Dancer]

Some other Non-Pokemon worth mentioning are real world animals in dex entries and moves like Indian elephants and horses and unshown baby versions of single stage Pokemon like Bombirdier

(Also similar to Kangaskhan’s baby in the honorable mentions, inside of Rabsca’s psychic ball is a larva)

[liskro_e]

could've said something about the rotom phone or the rotom dex, but I'm not sure if it would just count as unusable form of the usable rotom

[teleportedgourd]

I'm surprised when mentioning strange forms of Pokémon that "aren't Pokémon", as well as the technical status of Ultra Beasts, the time Nihilego somehow managed to fuse with Lusamine at the end of the original Sun and Moon (and have a battle with the player as a trainer) wasn't mentioned.

[thatweirdphoneguystickman]

There is actually something that he didn't mention that Ash catches in the show and never uses that's uncatchable in the games. Manky throws a doughnut at Ash and he actually catches it in a pokeball.

[GaymerMajor]

tbh after gen 8 ı just assumed the jiggypuff alakazam and gengar are ancient pokemon sealed away filled with dynamax energy

[federicomerlin]

There is an "angel" entity that appears in the animation of another "kiss" move in Gen 4.